The crown: Lamentations 1:1; Job 19:9; Psalms 89:39; Jeremiah 13:18; Ezekiel 21:26; Revelation 2:10, Revelation 3:11
is fallen from our head: Heb. of our head is fallen
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Lamentations 5:16
Lamentations 5:16
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